Is this a violation?

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c2500

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Last week, I received a call from a tenant of mine. She said there were two men on her deck, and they were running new wire for the water heater in another condo.

I decided to check it out, and this is what I found. I ask if they had permission from the Condo Association to run the wire, and they said the owner had obtained it. I then ask about permits. They said the owner had obtained them. Well, there was no association permission because I checked with the property manager. (I am also on the Board of Directors) The city had no record of a permit.

A codes enforcement official kindly met me there and put a Stop Work on the job.

Yes, that is water pipe you see. They were running this under two decks to reach the service entrance. They left after I ask them to stop, so this is as far as they made it. At least they knew enough to use #10.

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Buck Parrish

Buck Parrish

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That's a typical property manager type of maintnance guy. Why carry two types of pipe. One for water and one for wire.:confused:

I came across the same type of scenario at some condos near me. Except they didn't get caught. Plumbing pex pipe used as electrical conduit.
 
NolaTigaBait

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New Orleans,LA
i have a neighbor that needed a circuit run to his detached garage, his wife works at a hotel and she gets the hotel to pay for the materials...anyways, she goes with the "electrician" to get the materials...he come sback with white pvc and white pvc 90's...ya know the ones that would be impossible to pull a wire through....he also gets a qo panel with homeline breakers....did you know this guy makes over 75k a year doing "eletrical" work at the hotel?
 
480sparky

480sparky

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Iowegia
NolaTigaBait said:
i have a neighbor that needed a circuit run to his detached garage, his wife works at a hotel and she gets the hotel to pay for the materials...anyways, she goes with the "electrician" to get the materials...he come sback with white pvc and white pvc 90's...ya know the ones that would be impossible to pull a wire through....he also gets a qo panel with homeline breakers....did you know this guy makes over 75k a year doing "eletrical" work at the hotel?
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Depends on the hotel. If it's a huge one, then a person could easily be a commercial electrician and still not have a clue about roping houses.

We're all ignorant.... just in different areas.:wink:
 
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c2500

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Since it is a condo, the HO should have gotten permission from the association to run new wiring. If the jack legs had any sense, they would have pulled the old water heater wiring out of the underslab conduit, while pulling new wire in. That of course assumes they have a clue what they were doing. Then the issue of a permit, which would require a licensed EC, that would also have had a business license (which you have to be an EC to obtain) might have given the old guys a bit of a problem also.

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